Talent Report: Make HR a Strategic Partner

Description: MRA’s Talent Report is an up-to-the-minute review of what is going on in the world of business with an emphasis on talent. This month, MRA’s Jim Morgan, VP of Workforce Strategies, and Alicia Kiser, VP of HR of member company M3 Insurance, cover recruiting & retention innovation, talent thinking, HR creativity, and more.

Key Takeaways:

1. Work/life balance: Are your people “blenders” – those preferring a work-life blend, or “splitters” – those who prefer work and life to be separated entirely?
2. “Talent Mobility”: Enabling employees to move within the organization is becoming an area of emphasis for many employers
3. With the varying generations in the workplace, HR professionals are spending more time helping with communications including coaching people to avoid statements like “all young people...” or “all old people...”

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Guest Bio - Alicia Kiser

Guest LinkedIn Profile - Alicia Kiser

Guest Bio - Jim Morgan

Guest LinkedIn Profile - Jim Morgan

Host Bio - Sophie Boler

Host LinkedIn Profile - Sophie Boler

Transcript:

Transcripts are computer generated -- not 100% accurate word-for-word.

00:00:00:02 - 00:00:23:03

Intro

Hello hello, everybody, and welcome to 30 minute THRIVE, your go-to podcast for anything and everything HR, powered by MRA - The Management Association. Looking to stay on top of the ever-changing world of HR? MRA has got you covered. We’ll be the first to tell you what’s hot and what’s not. I’m your host, Sophie Boler, and we are so glad you’re here. Now it’s time to THRIVE.

00:00:23:14 - 00:00:50:16

Sophie Boler

Hello everybody. Thanks for taking the time to spend part of your day with us. I’m excited to introduce our topic and our two guests for today. We’re going to be covering how to leverage HR for critical business decisions. So we’ll be talking about the current best practices for HR and building strategy. So good thing I have two experts here with me today to really debrief this topic.

00:00:50:23 - 00:01:19:06

Sophie Boler

And that is Alicia Kiser, vice president of human resources at member company M3 Insurance, and MRA’s Jim Morgan, vice president of workforce strategies. So Jim and Alicia really make a strong duo for today’s episode, really based on their expertise and HR background. Alicia started at M3 insurance as an HR business partner back in 2011 and has climbed the ladder to VP of HR, where she is now.

00:01:19:06 - 00:01:48:05

Sophie Boler

And Jim Morgan has an extensive background in business development, HR strategic planning, and he’s a keynote speaker on those topics, most recently being on his monthly Talent Report+ webinar. So he’ll be sharing some ideas from that as well. So I’m excited to talk to you two today. Thanks for being on the show. I want to really kick off our conversation today with what’s happening in the recruiting and retention world.

00:01:48:18 - 00:01:53:05

Sophie Boler

So, Jim, do you want to start us off with what innovations you’re seeing here?

00:01:53:18 - 00:02:20:14

Jim Morgan

Sure. And I’ll back it up just a little bit with the Talent Report, because this was something that we started putting together for our 3,000 member companies. One of the values of that and one of the things we can bring back to our members is having the chance to steal some best practices from different organizations. And M3 being one of those leaders who shares what they’re doing and some of the ways they’re getting around some things to be more effective than the ways they used to do it.

00:02:21:02 - 00:02:44:07

Jim Morgan

So we really are, we put the Talent Report webinar together to talk about what’s timely, what’s happening now, what are the best practices. And so the thoughts and ideas that I’m going to share with you are, you know, this is what we’re hearin...